Thread about long-time Chicago pol Maria Pappas. Her calendars are cute & all, but she's as crusty as any other political creature from the ancient Machine. (She's been in office since 1998!) The sooner she retires, the better.

Pappas’ husband, Peter Kamberos, works in real estate development and has received a $400k annual salary from Thorek Hospital Group, a NFP which buys real estate all over the city and redevelops it. And she runs unopposed year after year. Maria has also worked for Thorek as well while Treasurer.

We cannot afford the cede the Cook County Assessor’s office to MAGA donors. This is why we proudly support @fritzforassessor.bsky.social

"Pappas is running for re-election as county treasurer, a post she’s held since 1998. She has no challengers in the March 17 Democratic primary, and has floated running for mayor in the 2027 election," @adquig.bsky.social reports

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas held stock for years in a company with a major contract working in her office, a potential violation of the county’s conflict-of-interest rules.

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🫡 respect to the folks keeping our streets clean

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Bad Bunny’s closing message builds on a centuries-old critique of the United States as the sole “America" local experts told me. Data shows 1 out of 8 Chicagoans was born outside of the 50 U.S. states but in the countries and territories that make up the Western Hemisphere.

just walked through a school walkout of Golder students down Chicago Ave. Fuck ICE indeed, children!

This is why we call him Showpez. He's worse than a congressperson.

Ironically, right-leaning alder Ray Lopez parachuted into a Traffic Safety Committee hearing to gripe that the Archer Complete Streets project, in someone else's ward, didn't have enough local input. Then he rudely walked out when local alder Julia Ramirez responded to his rant.

If your ward looks like this, you don't get a say on transportation policy.

We are so thrilled to endorse such a committed fighter for working people: @delia.bsky.social ! Most recently, she has shown the way forward by co-authoring the Melt ICE Act! Full slate here: bit.ly/33wf2026Slate

The actual analysis was not released. There is no report or data or methodology. Those are Coming Soon. Only the Executive Summary was released. It does NOT call for "hundreds more officers." The consultant's draft staffing plan recommends 121 officers BUT NOTABLY... +

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Facebook removed Chicago’s most popular ICE sighting page. Now, its founder is suing. blockclubchi.co/46K4h2C

Very curious ~when~ he was placed on leave. It’s been four months since he shot Marimar Martinez and his boss sent him a congratulatory message hours later. Guessing this was a very recent development.

Fucking hell, were the Trib editorial board born this fucking naiive or is it just the result of being professional opinion havers for Christ knows how many years? How well has appeasing fascists and white supremacists worked before now?

This doesn’t mean we’re not going to have to pay. It just means the City will have to keep paying lawyers to stay in court and maybe lose cases and have to pay anyway — and possibly more.

A police chase reached 95 mph and carried on for eleven miles / nine minutes before ending in a wreck that killed a 55 year old woman 18 Aldermen just told her family to kick rocks instead of settling the case, so now it’s going to trial

Chicago is holding a Fuck ICE Fest on Sunday at the Beat Kitchen. wl.eventim.us/event/fuck-i...

“Ald. Bill Conway (34th), a former Cook County prosecutor, called Flores Gomez’s death a ‘tragic situation’ and said he ‘hates the officer’s history’ of having been involved in ‘at least four, if not five’ prior police pursuits that caused accidents.” Conway then voted against the settlement.

👀 – A few days after SD-9 candidate Patrick Hanley's letter in the Tribune calling on Cook County State's Attorney, Eileen O'Neill Burke to be tougher on prosecuting crimes committed by feds, Burke's campaign committee transferred $2,000 to Hanley's opponent in SD-9, Rachel Ruttenberg of Evanston

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

JUST IN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":

"Residents say limited parking and added density could strain nearby residential streets." This Chicago resident says: "Scaling back development like this will cause Illinois to lose seats in Congress and electoral college, enabling the rise of fascism" blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/11/n...

Alderman Scott Waguespack hasn't been a progressive leader in years- and this endorsement proves it

This eyeroll of an endorsement aside, has anything Waguespack's done in the last decade scream "Progressive Leader"?

Even burrito taxi lovers don’t like the robots

Good morning from Chicago’s Loop, where Marimar Martinez and her attorneys are holding a press conference to announce a civil lawsuit stemming from her shooting by a Border Patrol agent in October. They have some of the agent’s texts blown up on posters

Marimar Martinez and her attorneys have begun today's press conference about the evidence in her case and a pending lawsuit. Her attorney, Chris Parente, starts by telling reporters that "this is a time when we just cannot trust the words of our federal officials."

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

Here's the Trib editorial board saying that ICE requiring a warrant signed by a judge before arresting someone is "going through the bureaucratic hoops"

Moments ago: Marimar Martinez and her attorneys held a press conference in Chicago, addressing materials released yesterday that shed new light on her shooting by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October. Martinez's attys say they plan to seek millions in damages in follow-up legal action.

Looks like IL-9 is going negative. Laura Fine updated her red box webpage yesterday with new positives for her and fresh negatives on Daniel Biss. Attacks include ambition/ladder-climbing, NU-connected donos after the Ryan Field vote, and sending AIPAC an Israel policy paper early in the race.

Want to know the real reason property tax bills went up in Cook County? Corporate tax breaks. Companies hire property tax lawyers who donate to county politicians, then those politicians give BIG tax breaks to commercial properties. It’s pay-to-play. They get rich, you pay more.

Chicago's U.S. attorney's office has released evidence from the case against Marimar Martinez, pre-empting her press conference later today. It even released text messages it once claimed would "sully" a Border Patrol agents's rep. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“More footage of Aurora, IL PD brutally beating and abducting children from an anti-ICE school walk out protest (2/9/26)” “Police tackle and kneel on top of high school students who walked out of class to protest ICE” www.reddit.com/r/LetsDiscus...

The video is of course of Aurora IL PD cops beating the fuck out of minor kids exercising their constitutionally protected rights to assembly and speech to protest police state brutality against their friends and family

Footage of the Aurora, Illinois Police Department assaulting and abducting children during an anti-ICE school walkout protest on 2/9/26

Charles Exum was treated like a hero by peers and fellow Feds, not just Bovino, as he shared with this text sent by “guy from Vermont” who called him “a legend among agents”

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local government thugs stop, harass priests, cardinal intervenes”

Border Patrol agents after the shooting of Marimar Martinez radioed in, "We're on south Kah-Dee-Zee" for Kedzie. What in the heck

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

Hours after Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman 5 times, his boss, Cmdr. Greg Bovino, emailed him about extending his mandatory retirement. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!” Bovino wrote Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/10/m...

Okay that’s fine, in the meantime you’ve stood in the way of ending pretextual traffic stops, something that you can tell Snelling to just stop. So what are you gonna do about it.

I think this needs to be completely reconsidered by our AG, for many reasons, e.g. ICE, but especially considering the recent Ring Super Bowl commercial This may be more like giving domestic abuse survivors an Apple AirTag linked to their abuser’s iCloud illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/news/story/a...

Melissa Conyears-Ervin is supported by AIPAC money, the Chicago Teachers Union and Lori Lightfoot. A more eclectic coalition has rarely emerged.